Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest

The Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest is the only legal report focusing exclusively on human rights cases from Commonwealth jurisdictions. The Digest is published twice a year and contains details of summarised human rights cases from national courts across the Commonwealth together with an editorial commentary.

The Digest takes advantage of the common legal language and the similarity of legal systems across the Commonwealth states to cover a wide range of human rights issues, including INTERIGHTS' key areas of focus: economic and social rights, equality, and security and the rule of law. It enables cross-fertilisation of ideas and decisions – for example by allowing lawyers in Africa to make reference to decisions made in South Asia. It also allows legal practitioners in some Commonwealth regions such as the Caribbean and Pacific to access information that might otherwise be hard to obtain. The Digest also features decisions from smaller jurisdictions whose decisions would otherwise be unreported or difficult to access.

In January 2009 INTERIGHTS published the first ever issue of the Digest to address a specific theme: the protection of fundamental rights in the context of combating domestic and international terrorism. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the Security and the Rule of Law Special Issue Digest please contact Rebecca Cumming at rcumming@interights.org.

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The Digest is produced with the generous support of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Call for Cases

INTERIGHTS is always seeking to increase its coverage of human rights-related case law from national courts in Commonwealth and common law jurisdictions. In particular, we are interested in accessing more cases from 20 specific jurisdictions (click here for details). If you regularly deal with relevant cases in these countries or have access to the judgments, we would be happy to offer you a free subscription to one of our publications in return for regular supply of this information. Please contact Rebecca Cumming for more details.

Note on Digest Volume 7 Issue 2

It has come to our attention that there are some errors with the endnotes in Digest 7.2. The errors relate to the Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, Death Penalty, Equality and Expression sections. All relevant information is contained in the Digest, but there are some problems with the numbering and/or positioning of the endnotes. Accordingly, an amended pdf of this edition has been created and is available here. If you would like further information or have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact Rebecca Cumming.